The appropriations measure also contains $1 million for
research and development of a JP-8 Soldier Fuel Cell. The funding will
support research on development of a power source for use by individual
soldiers - an innovative, portable, highly efficient, source of energy
that is the size of a soda can. Researchers will focus on making modifications
and improvements to a fuel cell designed to provide the power needed
to support advanced communications and electronic gear during longer
combat missions. The initial design was developed by CAMP's industrial
partner, NanoDynamics Inc. of Buffalo, New York.

Current batteries are too heavy and expensive. While this
new fuel cell will weigh only 7.5 pounds, it will be optimized to provide
3,000 watt-hours of use before needing to be recharged. CAMP researchers
Professors Dan Goia, Ian Suni, Prag Pillay, and Raghu Rengasamy plan
to work with NanoDynamics Inc. of Buffalo, New York, to accelerate research
on the fuel cell's development and deliver a prototype according to
specifications, which will be detailed in a contract with the Army.

As a result of the special milling additives, the newly developed
processes can yield flakes/platelets by 'flattening' not only
particles of chemically stable noble metals (Ag, Au), but also
particles of reactive metals (like copper), without the need to
exclude oxygen from the milling environment (Figure 2). These
highly anisotropic conductive metallic particles & materials can
be used effectively in both military (obscurant smokes) as well
as non-military applications (EMI shielding of electronic devices,
decorative and/or conductive coatings, conductive thin layers
and electrodes, etc.).

Sematech, Inc. is funding $421,388 for a two-year project titled
"Advanced Photomask Clean." This project involves research carried
out by Professor Cetinkaya and his group to control the contamination
on advanced Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) photomasks.
Higher energy photons, associated with smaller exposure wavelengths,
combined with other factors contribute to the creation of mask
surface contamination.

In addition Professor Cetinkaya is receiving $239,499 for a two-year
period from Intel, to develop a fundamentally new detachment model
for nanoscale particles (spherical and irregular shapes) under
the influence of laser-induced plasma and shock waves.